Could this weekend's No Kings protests be the largest ever?

Think you are right, I just got permabanned from r/papermoney for posting 🤨🤢🤮 about taking the treasurers signature off bills and replacing it with Trump's.

Ghislaine is a power mod for /worldnews. Posting daily for 9 years straight amassing 15 million karma. My former account got permanently banned last year for simply asking "who is DOGE?".

I literally got banned for three days for commenting on a Rump post that the heart atta\*k was not working fast enough, lol. I also got banned for three days for saying that a rapi\*st that said women “ask to be r\*ped” should have his bits cut off. Pretty sure Listnook is run by maga incels at this point.

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I understand the sentiment but there is room for both legal and not so legal activism both The civil rights movement was not just a bunch of permitted protests over one summer, there is strategy at work... Hopefully better than any DNC strategy

“The civil rights movement did nothing” k

The first amendment prevents the government from censoring speech. It does not prevent a business from censoring speech. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

thanks for chiming in unprompted to let everyone know you're scared

He literally depicted chemical warfare against US citizens. Treason. Can’t wait for midterms and I’ll be there tomorrow.

I am from Quebec, Canada. Just north of you. In 2012 our government was proposing a couple of hundred dollars of tuition hikes and so we got about 4% of the population to come together and strike for MONTHS. Not only was there protests amounting to 4% of the population, but the students shut the universities down for a year, everyone had to extend their degrees by 1 year, but we did it anyway.

When people in other countries have truely had enough, protest might have a start time, but not an end. A single day protest like this—though impressive in scope—is just a nuisance that will go away within 24 hours. Now, if people in the US did an ‘Occupy Wallstreet’ style protest, but at a massive scale, then the government would have to show its true colors in order to handle the civil disobedience. That would make a difference.

I think about this a lot. I am proud of people using their voices and protesting, but this feels a lot like bringing a "I don't like the opposing team" sign to a World Series Parade of the winning team. Yeah, for sure, no kings and all that. Now let's get the gestapo into our airports while cancelling voting and eliminating the rights of people across the country to start a new world war to drive further unaffordability and enhance profit generation for a very select few members of the "definitely not a king"'s party. Woohoo

All on a weekend as to not cause any actual damage to Trump. USA is weird.

You aren’t really seeing the positive impact this has. Change is not going to come from an individual, it has to be a united front. There are a lot of people who are angry but will loose hope and will I just give up if they become convinced they have no support in this fight. These rallies are meant to built more unity, encourage people to fight their fear and stop being silent. Learn from others what they can do to fight back. The bigger the protests get, the more people will be emboldened to be more vocal, more willing to act beyond the end of the rally. Someone who’s given up and convinced themselves they don’t have power won’t callout racism when they see it, won’t stand up against religious indoctrination in our schools, won’t believe their vote will matter. But if we keep coming together in groups so large the media can’t ignore it. It shows everyone we have the power of sheer numbers. More than 30 house republicans are resigning rather than seeking reelection. I have no doubt they see the protest sizes in their own states and that has influenced their decisions to leave.

im sorry, but this sort of doomer shit pisses me off. protests are but **one** method to push back on this. we don't control the government. what we can do is show the rest of the country whom isn't as tuned in (believe me, there are still millions) and let them know we ALL see whats going on and are fed up with it. to help provide a direction for our ire. to help motivate people to **vote.** so enough with this sarcastic insult bullshit. your comment serves only to boost your own cynical ego. great job. you poked fun. whats next on your agenda? if you're not going to be part of the solution, then get out of the f****** way.

Agreed...how many "record breaking protests" do we need until we see that protests like these are a waste of time? I doubt a general strike will ever take off because we are so deep in this bullshit and they have us by the balls (healthcare, general paycheck-to-paycheck inequality). Short of getting out a whetstone, this is just virtue signaling

This. It's embarrassing. Americans need to get in the streets and stay there until trump is gone.

You’re 100% right, but it hurts the feelings of those that want to pretend that making fun of the way Trump looks is accomplishing anything.

I'm not even trying to discourage attendance, I go to these as well. I'm just stating my belief that these highly organized, coordinated, and time capped rallies that happen about once a quarter are not really Protests. Protests are something different entirely. Both Rallies and Protests are political demonstrations but this just doesn't feel like a protest.

you aren't wrong. protests need to be persistent and impossible to ignore.

I'm not a bot, but ok... Call anyone who holds a different view than you a bot sure. I didn't even say don't attend these I said these rallies are not the same as a protest.

That's helpful. I hadn't considered the opportunity for connecting with other organizers.

That makes sense. I live in very blue city in a state that historically leans left (mostly because the city population outweighs the rest of the state). We're already very vocally not ok with a lot of the stuff going on with this administration so there's a lot less convincing needed here so it feels less impactful. I just wish there was more movement to participate in the other parts of the process

What did the last two parades accommodations? What is this parade supposed to accomplish? Or is bad sarcasm all you got?

I know calling out feel good ineffective tactics upset people. Parades alone didn't give women the right to vote. And it took a century to do. What is having a parade on the weekend going to materially accomplish?

Why would you want to end women’s suffrage

I’ve seen the protests that they had when Trump came into power first day in office. Nothing has changed and it’s gotten worse. Tell me more about how we just need a bigger group of people walking outside to stop a dictator? Hasn’t worked since 2016